Calvin Johnson
Bill Davis
Edwin Black
Rhetorical Schemes
Grammar
100

To whom does Calvin owe money?

Octavio

100

Where does Bill work?

At the baseball stadium

100

Who is Edwin's father?

Harvey

100

Identify the rhetorical scheme in the following sentence:

...that the government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.

Epistrophe

100

Identify the subject in the following sentence:

Roger Moore was the third person to play James Bond.

Roger Moore

200

What is Calvin's brother's name?

Charles

200

In what war did Bill fight?

The war in Vietnam

200

How does Edwin make contact with his father?

Through his mother's Facebook account.

200

Identify the rhetorical scheme in the following sentence:

One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Antithesis

200

Identify the direct object in the following sentence:

My math teacher assigns way too much homework.

Homework

300

With whom is Calvin living?

His sister Maggie

300

Whom is Bill dating?

Karen, Edwin's mother

300

What advanced degree does Edwin hold?

Masters in Comparative Literature

300

Identify the rhetorical scheme in the following sentence:

We shall fight on the beaches; we shall fight on the landing grounds; we shall fight in the fields and in the streets.

Anaphora

300

Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence:

I came home to find my brother sitting on my couch.

sitting on my couch.

400

Octavio has a nickname for the two people who come to get Calvin. It is a combination of their names. What is the nickname?

Charlos

400

What does Bill see while he is picking up trash at work?

A drone

400

To which indigenous tribal group does Edwin's father belong?

Cheyenne and Arapaho

400

Identify the rhetorical scheme in the following sentence:

She went to church, but to the bar went he.

Chiasmus

400

What is the first-person singular form of the verb to run in the past-perfect tense?

I had run.

500

Whom does Calvin see upon leaving Octavio's house?

Tony Loneman

500

How did Bill spend most of his time in prison?

Reading

500

Where does Edwin's mother suggest he pursue a paid internship?

At the Indian Center where she works.

500

Identify the rhetorical scheme in the following sentence:

He wanted to win the game, to defeat the opposition, and to bring home the trophy.

Parallelism

500

Rewrite the following sentence to correct the misplaced modifier: 

Rolling slowly down the alley, the bowler watched the straightest ball he had ever thrown.

The bowler watched the straightest ball he had ever thrown rolling slowly down the alley.

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